Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Chipper Cash, an African fintech firm that specializes in facilitating cross-border payments, recently closed a $100 million Series C funding round. Taking the lead in what is now Chipper Cash‘s third fundraising round in the past twelve months...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Three leading cryptocurrency exchanges from South Africa recently confirmed receiving a request for client data from the country’s revenue collector. In a joint statement, the exchanges, (namely Altcointrader, Luno, and Valr) said this request,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) says it has commenced a feasibility study for a general-purpose retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The study, which the SARB expects to conclude in 2022, will focus on the issuance of a domestic CBDC th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
The South African Reserve Bank has begun exploratory studies on central bank digital currencies. South Africa is the latest country to begin exploring the possibility...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. On what could be tagged as the worst day of crypto this year, African-founded exchange, Quidax, raised over 7,772 BNB from the public sale of its token, QDX. The crypto market suffered its first major dip in 2021 on Thursday, May 19, 2...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. On what could be tagged as the worst day of crypto this year, African-founded exchange, Quidax, raised over 7,772 BNB from the public sale of its token, QDX. The crypto market suffered its first major dip in 2021 on Thursday, May 19, 2...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
The QDX token sold out in less than 48 hours to illustrate the interest in crypto on the continent
African cryptocurrency exchange Quidax has raised over $3 million in a token sale conducted late last week, according to news published Monday, 24 Apri...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
When billionaire Elon Musk announced that Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin as payment for its electric vehicles, the price of the crypto asset tanked. In justifying this decision, Musk cited bitcoin mining’s inefficient use of electricity a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Museum of Modern African Art Gallery & Lifestyle (MOMAA), a platform that promotes African artworks, recently kickstarted a 30-day non-fungible token (NFT) Modern African Art Exhibition. The exhibition, which will be MOMAA’s first NFT s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
According to reports, over 100,000 African youths have taken part in Binance’s crypto and blockchain education barely a year after the learning program was launched. Dubbed the Binance Masterclass, the education initiative is aimed at equipping...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
An international tax expert, David Lesperance, says South Africa’s revenue collector is closing in on cryptocurrencies, and holders of these assets need to take the initiative and approach South Africa Revenue Services (SARS) before it descends...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Cryptocurrency exchange Quidax officially announced a partnership with JulSwap. JulSwap is one of the biggest decentralized exchanges (DEX) on the Binance Smart Chain Ecosystem.
Quidax also announced that it will be launching its ecosy...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Despite gold’s longstanding status as an alternative store of value, the commodity continues to experience unusual price variations in countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe. In turn, such price variances, as well as the rampant smuggling of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
According to a recent Mastercard payment index report, the Covid-19 related lockdowns helped spread the use of cryptocurrency in three African countries, namely Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. The report also reveals that a greater number of consum...